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GENESEE FARMER. 



June. 



A Valuable Invention. 



We insert the following, because we think it 

 will prove interesting and valuable to many of 

 our readers. The card of the proprietors would 

 be more appropriate in our advertising depart- 

 ment, but we can not properly separate it from 

 the figure and description of the Preserver : 



lephart's Patent Fruit and Vegetable Preserver. 



Description. — The outer cohimns in the above cut rep 

 resent wallls of stone, enclosing the inner construction. 



Tlie light shading at the bottom, descending to the cen- 

 ter, represents the earth. 



The dark shadings, A, A, and K, K, represent twobonrd- 

 ings, with from six to ten inches space, and this space filled 

 with a substance that will best exclude heat. 



F is the Fruit Room, in which articles are to be placed 

 for preservation. 



C, C, a floor or cover to the fruit room, made watertight, 

 with u coat of pitch over its surface to prevent moisture 

 from penetrating. 



I, an apartment to be filled with ice, supported by the 

 floor, O, C, and designed to contain ice enough, when filled, 

 to last during the whole year. 



B, B, and L>, l), are spaces around the fruit room, intend- 

 ed for the meltings of the ice on the top floor to pass off. — 

 This ice water, as it passes down these spaces around the 

 fruit room, and over the tight floor at bottom, in the space, 

 D, I), serves to absorb any heat which may find its way 

 through the non-conductor, K, K. 



O, the outlet for ice water. 



H. hatchway or entrance into fruit room. 



The fruit room, F, is intended to be below ground, and 

 the ice apartment, I, if desired, can be above ; buildings 

 above ground being now generally preferred for ice to those 

 below ground. 



It will be seen from the construction that the non-con- 

 ducting substances, A, A. and K, K, are designed to pre- 

 vent the admission of heat from the earth, at the sides and 

 bottom, into the fruit room F ; while the ice upon the floor, 

 C, C, acts by keeping the fruit room at a constant uniform 

 temperature, dry, and so cold as to exert a preserving in- 

 fluence upon articles placed therein. 



A CARD. 

 The undersigned having purchased the above Patent 

 Right for the United States, (excepting the states of New 

 Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the cities of New York 

 and St. Louis,) invite the attention of the Public to an ex- 

 amination of the scientific prineiplea upon which the above 

 invention is based, as well as its practical utility, and offer 

 for sale patent rights for the constiuclion and use of the 

 Preserver by States, Cities, Counties, Towns, or individu- 



al rights, upon terms which will induce all interested in 

 the growth and sale of Fruits and Vegetables, or in tha 

 curing and preservation of Meats — also dealers in Butter, 

 Eggs, I3acon, &,c., — to purchabO rights and construct Pre- 

 servers. 



As will be seen by the above drawing, its success de- 

 pends entirely upon chemical truths. 



The room F, in which Fruits, &c., are placed for preser- 

 vation, will remain the whole year at a constant, uniform 

 temperature, so near the freezing point as to arrest the rot- 

 ting as well as the ripening process of fruits, &c., without 

 danger of freezing them. That the fruit room F will remain 

 at this temperature, will be evident from the fact that tha 

 air in contact with the floor C, C, on which the ice rests, 

 becomes nearly as cold as ice itself. This condensed air 

 will immediately sink, while the air at the bottom of the 

 room, if but half a degree warmer, will rise to the floor C, 

 C, and give oflf its heat — thus maintaining a uniform tem- 

 perature corresponding with that in contact with the floor 



C, C. 



Articles placed in this Preserver will remain as perfectly 

 dry and free from moisture, as if kept in the best ventilated 

 apartments. The air descending from the floor C, C, being 

 always about half a degree colder thaii the boxes or barrels 

 of fruit, &c., cannot deposit any moisture therein — it being 

 an established fact that no object cr.n condense moisture, 

 unless colder than the air coming in contact with said object. 



It is a theory long maintained by Liebig and other emi- 

 nent chemists, that a temperature, dry, uniform, and near 

 32° Fahrenheit, will arrest the process of decay that takes 

 place in fruits, vegetables, (fee, — but never, until the above 

 invention, could the truth of the theory be tested. 



Two years of experiments has proved the truth of the 

 theory, and established the entire utility and success of the 

 invention — as fruits, &c., foreign and domestic, viz : oran- 

 ges, lemons, apples, pears, peaches, plums, grapes, &c., as 

 well as the most dehcate fruits — also potatoes, green corn, 

 melons, &c., can be kept as long as desired. Add to these 

 butter, eggs, bacon, lard, &c., which can be preserved 

 througliout the year as fresh and sweet as when first placed 

 in the Preserver. 



Fruits, &c. in common temperatures undergo saccharin* 

 fermentation, or what is known by the mellowing or ripen- 

 process, which is followed by vinous, ascetous and putre- 

 factive fermentation, which completes the rotting process. 

 A temperature dry, and so low, arrests the first process to- 

 wards decay — so that all fruits, &c., if placed in the Pre- 

 server when first plucked, will retain all their juices, fresh- 

 ness and flavor as when first plucked from the tree or vine. 



It will readily be seen that the only way in which fruits, 

 &:c., can be kept during all seasons of the year, is by the 

 plan offered in this invention — and one of its greatest advan- 

 tages is that fruits, &c. can be preserved in all climates at 

 a trifling cost, not only in the north where ice is produced, 

 but in the soutli where it has become an article of exten- 

 sive commerce. Being shipped in large cargoes, housei 

 must be liuilt for its reception ; for this purpose tlie room I 

 will be most appropriate — thus efiecting the double purpose 

 for selling ice from the top, and preserving fruits, Sac. below. 



All desirous of any further knowledge of the operations 

 of this Preserver, can see one either by calling upon P. 

 Kefhart, Baltimore, or upon the undersigned Coatcs at. 

 Wharf, near Fairmount, Philadelphia. 



Flack, Thompson & Bro. 



[O^ All communications will receive prompt attention, if 

 addressed either to Peter Kephart, Western Hotel, Bal- 

 timore, or to FLACK, THOMPSON & BRO. 



Spriyig Gardm P. O., Pliila., Pa. 



Horticultural Societies. 



The " American Ag. Association" has taken measures to 

 sustain periodical exhibitions of Horticultural productions 

 during the season. The first was to be held on the 19th May. 



The first public exhibition of the Mass. Hort. Society waa 

 to have been held on the l.'jth of May, when premiums were 

 to be awarded for Green House plants, &c. 



We learn from the Horticulturist that a Hort. Society waa 

 organized at Syracuse, on the 17th April, called the Onon- 

 daga Hort. Society. The ofTicers— E. 'W. Leavenworth, 

 Prest., RuFus, CossiTT, A. Dolbear, I. G. Tracev, and 

 Dr. LooMis, 'Vice Presidents; Thos. Smith, Treasurer; 



D. C. Le Roy, Cor. Sec'y; and C. B. Sedgwick, Rec. Sec'y- 

 The Ifortimlliira/ Sociely of the Valley of the Gefieseeheld 



its first public exhibition on the 26th May. 



